Ododo Employs Best Graduating Students Of Kogi Varsity

Kogi State governor, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, has granted automatic employment to the best graduating students of the Confluence University of Science and Technology, (CUSTECH), Osara from each of the eight faculties of the institution, affirming that “their hard work deserves recognition.”

Governor Ododo who gave the directive, at the maiden combined convocation ceremony of the institution on Saturday, commended the immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, for establishing the university.

While also commending the pioneer students and staff of the institution for their resilience, commitment and sacrifice, the governor noted that the end has truly justified the means.

He noted that as a cardinal objective of government, his administration will continue to provide the environment for the university to thrive in the face of contending demands from the lean resources available.

Adding that this is in recognition of the pivotal role universities play in the human capital development of the country.

“We shall continue to commit reasonable resources to their development, to make them qualitative, accessible and affordable. I am determined more than ever before to continue to do more in encouraging excellence in the state ivory towers to make them fall within the first brackets in progressive Universities index in the country.

We shall keep faith with the dream to uphold the legacies of the founding father.

“Our focus is to make the three State Universities, spread across the three Senatorial Districts of the State, Centres of Excellence, to ensure their mobility and enhance competitiveness on the national scale. I hope that in no time, they will start to record significant scientific and technological breakthrough to justify their existence,” she said.

Speaking on the initial security challenges in the University, leading to the abduction of some students by bandits, the governor asserted that the government has put formidable security measures in place to ensure security of lives and property of both students and staff of the institution.

In his remarks, the Chancellor of CUSTECH, HRH Anthony Ehizojie Abumere II, the Onojie of Ewu, thanked the state government for the privilege of service and encouraged the graduands to be worthy ambassadors of innovation, entrepreneurship, and responsible citizenship.

The vice chancellor Professor Abdurahman Asipita Salawu described the convocation as a remarkable one in the life of the young university.